Feminism as a phenomenon engaging with issues of women's rights, women's liberation,
and gender equality as part and parcel of the rights, liberation, and equality of all was …

While feminism in the West has been subject to a new wave of repression, it has gained
momentum in the Islamic world. The backlash on the feminist movement in the West1 is not …

This article focuses on the phenomenon of Islamic feminism. It provides a detailed summary
of the defining theories and objectives of the movement and its role in contributing to raising …

Recent ideological shifts in Western capitalist countries have impelled many Muslim
intellectuals to examine the discourses of feminism and human rights in the Islamic world …

The history of Islamic feminism demonstrates that, particularly during the formative periods,
many of the critiques of Islamic gender discrimination that were being developed during this …

I will begin by making my positioning explicit. My name is Sa 'diyya Shaikh, an Arabic name.
I am South African, born and raised solely on the continent of Africa, and my ancestry is …

By comparing it with the secular feminism that appeared in some Muslim societies starting in
the early 20th Century, and sketching its trajectory since its appearance in the 1980s, the …

Islamic feminism, whether as an area of research or a form of activism, has become the
focus of much scholarly and public interest and many contestations. A search in the Google …

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the dynamics for the formation of new gender orders
have quickened and become delocalized. Both in Europe and the US, as well as in the …

" Islamic feminism." The foundational moment of women's" secular feminism" may be traced
to the late nineteenth century while the emergence of" Islamic feminism" became evident in …